Carl Rubino is a computational linguist and typologist specializing in Western Austronesian languages. He received his B.A. in Spanish and Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara for his Reference Grammar of Ilocano in 1997. Carl has held diverse positions in academia and industry including the Australian National University, University of California at Santa Barbara, Panasonic Speech Technologies, AnswerLogic.com and ARTI. His publications include the following books: Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar, Tagalog Standard Dictionary [with Grammatical Outline], Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present (with Jane Garry), and A Pedagogical Grammar of Tausug, as well as numerous articles on typological issues, Philippine languages, Malagasy and Yup’ik Eskimo. He currently works in the field of machine translation. He lives in Maryland with his wife Grace, son Rafi and corgi Buster Brown. [Extracted from: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. II].